State’s college leaders on campus for Latino leadership summit

Presidents and chancellors of California’s three higher education systems will convene at Fresno State Friday, March 24, along with 200 other educators and community leaders for the two-day California Latino Leadership Education Summit that starts at 6 p.m. Thursday, March 23, with a reception featuring U.S. Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera in the Henry Madden Library Table Mountain Rancheria Reading Room (third floor).

The event is sold out.

Dr. Joseph B. Cuseo, a researcher, author and professor emeritus of psychology at Marymount California University in Rancho Palos Verdes, will be the keynote speaker at 6:40 p.m. Herrera follows at 7 p.m. Fresno State President Dr. Joseph I. Castro and Joel Murillo, chair of the California Latino Leadership Network, will welcome attendees both days.

On Friday, the summit is from 8 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. with eight breakout sessions that will include the “Community College, CSU and UC Challenges and System Priorities” panel at 12:30 p.m. Castro will be joined by Arnoldo Avalos of the board of governors for California Community Colleges; Dr. Dorothy Leland, chancellor of the University of California, Merced; and Dr. Paul Parnell, State Center Community College District chancellor.

At 1:30 p.m., the “Higher Education High Impact Practices Advancing Student Success” panel will include Dr. Rosa Flores Carlson, president of Porterville College; Dr. Carole Goldsmith, Fresno City College president; and Dr. Ellen Junn, California State University, Stanislaus president.

INFO: Tom Uribes, 559.246.1717 or tomu@csufresno.edu. See original press release: http://bit.ly/FSN-LatinoEdSumm17. Full agenda and speakers list with workshop times at bit.ly/FSN-LatinoEd17Starts. Follow the summit at #LatinoEdSum17.

CALIFORNIA LATINO LEADERSHIP EDUCATION SUMMIT
March 23 and 24, 2017
FRESNO STATE